Our Topics for Term 1.As we finish each topic, we will upload pictures to show our progress.Click on the curriculum headings to also go and view that area's page. *Our Class Inquiry Unit:Our Learning World
Creating a Positive Classroom
My School Tool-Box
Classroom Expectations, Routines and Responsibilities
Knowing ME, Knowing YOU! Team-Building
Some of the activities we have been learning about include:*Our 'Switch Ons' and 'Switch Offs' to learning*Learning about 'Brain-food' and 'Brain-Breaks'*Making a healthy 'Snack Box'- What would we put inside the snack box?
Our Learning World on PhotoPeach
Written Language*Recount StorywritingLearning about the different parts that make a 'Recount' story.- Title- Orientation (When, Who and Where)- Events (What)- Conclusion (The end - Finish the story with explaining 'How you felt and why?')
*Narrative StorywritingLike a 'recount' story but a 'narrative' has a problem and the writer has to givea 'resolution' or 'solution' to fix the problem.- Title- Orientation- The problem- Solution- Conclusion
Maths Topic*Geometry - 2D and 3D shapes- naming and classifying the 2D shapes according to their attributes- repetitive patterns using 2D shapes- learning about 'symmetry'- moving shapes by 'flipping' and 'rotating'Classifying Shapes on PhotoPeach
PE and Fitness*Swimming skillsWe have been practising our:- confidence in, under and on top of the water- gliding and kicking, paying attention to kicking appropriately- 'freestroke' swimming - using our arms appropriately- kicking on our backs (and beginning to add arm movement)Senior Swimming Day on PhotoPeach
At the beginning of Term 1, our classroom looks like this:
Our Topics for Term 1.As we finish each topic, we will upload pictures to show our progress.Click on the curriculum headings to also go and view that area's page.
*Our Class Inquiry Unit:Our Learning World
Creating a
Positive Classroom
My School Tool-Box
Classroom
Expectations, Routines and
Responsibilities
Knowing ME,
Knowing YOU!
Team-Building
Written Language*Recount StorywritingLearning about the different parts that make a 'Recount' story.- Title- Orientation (When, Who and Where)- Events (What)- Conclusion (The end - Finish the story with explaining 'How you felt and why?')
*Narrative StorywritingLike a 'recount' story but a 'narrative' has a problem and the writer has to givea 'resolution' or 'solution' to fix the problem.- Title- Orientation- The problem- Solution- Conclusion
Maths Topic*Geometry - 2D and 3D shapes- naming and classifying the 2D shapes according to their attributes- repetitive patterns using 2D shapes- learning about 'symmetry'- moving shapes by 'flipping' and 'rotating'Classifying Shapes on PhotoPeach
PE and Fitness*Swimming skillsWe have been practising our:- confidence in, under and on top of the water- gliding and kicking, paying attention to kicking appropriately- 'freestroke' swimming - using our arms appropriately- kicking on our backs (and beginning to add arm movement)Senior Swimming Day on PhotoPeach
At the beginning of Term 1, our classroom looks like this: